"apparent ontological paradox by inspiring Shakespeare to borrow phrases that the Doctor quotes from his plays. Examples of this include the Doctor telling Shakespeare that ""all the world's a stage"" (from ""As You Like It"") and ""the play's the thing"" (from ""Hamlet""), as well as the name Sycorax from ""The Tempest"". However, when Shakespeare himself coins the phrase ""To be, or not to be"", the Doctor suggests he write it down, but Shakespeare considers it ""too pretentious"". In a different version of the joke, the Doctor exclaims ""Once more unto the breach"", and Shakespeare initially likes the phrase, before realising"
"poem and the epilogue to his ""Old Fortunatus"" (also performed at court in 1599), and a verbal echo of the Dial Hand poem in his ""Whore of Babylon"" (1605). Hackett states that, unlike Shakespeare, Dekker regularly wrote complimentary verse about Elizabeth and suggests that the poem was intended to be spoken at the end of his play ""The Shoemaker's Holiday"". To the Queen ""To the Queen"" (or ""To The Queen by the players"") is a short 18 line poem praising Queen Elizabeth I attributed to William Shakespeare. It was included in 2007 by Jonathan Bate in his complete Shakespeare edition"
"Phrases from Hamlet in common English William Shakespeare's play ""Hamlet"" has contributed many phrases to common English, from the famous ""To be, or not to be"" to a few less known, but still in everyday English. Also, some occur elsewhere, such as the Bible, or are proverbial. A few, listed out (""Note: all are second quarto except as noted""): Act I, scene 1: Act I, scene 2: Act I, scene 3: Act I, scene 4: Act I, scene 5: Act II, scene 2: ""Caviar to the general"" Hamlet Act 2, scene 2, 431–440 Act III, scene 1: Act III, scene"
"mouth."" Alan Bates performed this sonnet for the 2002 compilation album, ""When Love Speaks"" (EMI Classics). Sonnet 66 Sonnet 66 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. Sonnet 66 is a world-weary, desperate list of grievances of the state of the poet's society. The speaker criticizes three things: general unfairness of life, societal immorality, and oppressive government. Lines 2 and 3 illustrate the economic unfairness caused by one's station or nobility: <poem> As, to"
"To the Queen ""To the Queen"" (or ""To The Queen by the players"") is a short 18 line poem praising Queen Elizabeth I attributed to William Shakespeare. It was included in 2007 by Jonathan Bate in his complete Shakespeare edition for the Royal Shakespeare Company. The poem, described by Bate as having been written on ""the back of an envelope"", was probably composed as an epilogue for a performance of a play in the presence of the queen. Bate believes it was created to be read after ""As You Like It"" was given at court on Shrove Tuesday in February"
"2: Act III, Scene 4: Act III, Scene 4: Act IV, Scene 4: Act V, Scene 1: Act V, Scene 2: ""Major links:"" ""Minor links:"" Phrases from Hamlet in common English William Shakespeare's play ""Hamlet"" has contributed many phrases to common English, from the famous ""To be, or not to be"" to a few less known, but still in everyday English. Also, some occur elsewhere, such as the Bible, or are proverbial. A few, listed out (""Note: all are second quarto except as noted""): Act I, scene 1: Act I, scene 2: Act I, scene 3: Act I, scene 4:"
"To W.H. To W.H. is a play that examines the potential sexuality of William Shakespeare and the identity of ""W.H."" who has been referred to a number of times in Shakespeare's work. The play was written by Stuart Draper, directed by Anton Krause and first played in Hobgoblin Pub Theatre in London in spring 2006. The play has received a great deal of attention, due both to its playwright/actor and because of its content. The ""British Theatre Guide"" wrote, ""Funny and poignant, ""To WH"" takes the audience through Shakespeare's life, from his first ill-fated meeting with WH, to his death"
"happen. The use of ""sweet love"" appears to address a specific person but later seems to address the love that the author feels. The writer also questions whether or not this love is dying and doesn't want it to be spoken. According to Duncan-Jones, the use of ""than appetite"" in line two and the use of ""feeding"" in line three suggests a ""sexual appetite"" because of the topic of love. Sexual appetite is more common in Shakespeare's works than ""the application of food."" In this quatrain, Shakespeare also ""admonishes"" the youth that inspired this sonnet and wants to ""return"" to"
"To be, or not to be ""To be, or not to be"" is the opening phrase of a soliloquy spoken by Prince Hamlet in the so-called ""nunnery scene"" of William Shakespeare's play ""Hamlet"". Act III, Scene I. In the speech, Hamlet contemplates death and suicide, bemoaning the pain and unfairness of life but acknowledging that the alternative might be worse. This version preserves most of the First Folio text with updated spelling and five common emendations introduced from the Second (""Good"") Quarto (italicized). To be, or not to be, that is the question:<br> Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to"
"from unsold copies of the 1612 edition. This poem was published as an appendix to Shakespeare's sonnets in 1609. Its authorship has been disputed by several scholars. In 2007 Brian Vickers, in his monograph, ""Shakespeare, ""A Lover's Complaint"", and John Davies of Hereford"", attributes the ""Complaint"" to John Davies. Other scholars continue to attribute it to Shakespeare. ""To the Queen"" is a short poem praising Queen Elizabeth, probably recited as an epilogue to a royal performance of a play. It was first attributed to Shakespeare by American scholars William Ringler and Steven May, who discovered the poem in 1972 in"
"Sonnet 114 Sonnet 114 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. Is the poet's mind flattered, like a king, by the youth's presence, or is it simply a truth that is being told by his eyes that ugly things are made beautiful by the mental image of the youth? Surely it must be flattery, that he consumes like a king. He knows he enjoys it even if it's poisonous. Even if it is,"
"Sonnet 57 Sonnet 57 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. ""Sonnet 57"" is connected with ""Sonnet 58"" which pursues the theme of the poet as a slave of the beloved. The character the poet is writing to, in sonnet 57, is a young male he seems to be attracted to. ""Shakespeare's sonnets display a narrative and a Dramatic Personae which combine to threaten conventional assumptions of appropriate love. Looking at Sonnet 57,"
"du min moder"" was described by the poet and literary historian Oscar Levertin as ""the to-be-or-not-to-be of Swedish literature"". To be, or not to be ""To be, or not to be"" is the opening phrase of a soliloquy spoken by Prince Hamlet in the so-called ""nunnery scene"" of William Shakespeare's play ""Hamlet"". Act III, Scene I. In the speech, Hamlet contemplates death and suicide, bemoaning the pain and unfairness of life but acknowledging that the alternative might be worse. This version preserves most of the First Folio text with updated spelling and five common emendations introduced from the Second (""Good"")"
"works based on ""Hamlet"" include: Contemporary popular music mentions include: The play has contributed many phrases to common English vernacular, including the famous ""To be, or not to be"". Hamlet in popular culture Numerous references to ""Hamlet"" in popular culture (in film, literature, arts, etc.) reflect the continued influence of this play. ""Hamlet"" is one of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays, topping the list at the Royal Shakespeare since 1879. The following list of plays including references to ""Hamlet"" is ordered alphabetically. The following list is ordered alphabetically. Sitcoms alluding to ""Hamlet"" include ""Gilligan's Island"", ""Happy Days"", ""Skins"", ""Mystery"
"Sonnet 76 Sonnet 76 is one of 154 sonnets published by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare in 1609. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence. This sonnet continues the theme of Sonnet 38 (38 sonnets ago), in which the ""sweet argument"" of the young man is predicted to inspire endless ""invention"". Sonnets 76 and 38 share four key words: ""invention, sweet, write"" and ""argument."" This sonnet begins by asking why the poet’s verse is lacking in new variations, why the poet doesn’t look around at the verse of others and pick up some of the latest fashions,"
"for the audience's approval. The play is based on a tale (3.9) of Boccaccio's ""The Decameron"". Shakespeare may have read an English translation of the tale in William Painter's ""Palace of Pleasure"". The name of the play expresses the proverb ""All's well that ends well"", which means that problems do not matter so long as the outcome is good. There is no evidence that ""All's Well"" was popular in Shakespeare's own lifetime and it has remained one of his lesser-known plays ever since, in part due to its unorthodox mixture of fairy tale logic, gender role reversals and cynical realism."
"critics believe that Shakespeare just carelessly used the word ""jacks"" wrong because of his infatuation with the Dark Lady. At the end of the sonnet, Shakespeare concludes in the last two lines with, ""Since saucy jacks so happy are in this, / Give them thy fingers, me thy lips to kiss."" Here, Shakespeare ends the poem with the idea that the Dark Lady should kiss him after teasing him with her musical talent throughout the poem. Agreeing with Trillini, Paul Edmondson in his book, ""Shakespeare's Sonnets"" writes about the speaker's lover in Sonnet 128. Edmondson agrees that the sonnet belongs"
"Sonnet 36 Sonnet 36 is one of 154 Shakespeare's sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the speaker expresses his love towards a young man. Sonnet 36 is just one of The Sonnets out of 154 that were written. There are 120 sonnets devoted to an unknown young man, twenty-eight sonnets are written to a young lady, and the rest are allegorical. Sonnet 36 falls in the category of love and beauty along with other sonnets such as 29, 37, and many others according to Claes Schaar."
"Sonnet 122 Sonnet 122 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare, and first published in 1609. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. Although the relationship started exuberantly in Sonnet 18 (""Shall I compare thee to a summer's day"") by now it has given way to an almost defensive tone. The poet justifies giving away or losing a notebook (""tables"") given him by the youth to record shared events by saying that his memories of them are stronger. Sonnet 122"
"""being false to me,"" carry the pain. Sonnet 41 Sonnet 41 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a part of the Fair Youth section of the sonnets addressed to an unnamed young man. While the exact date of the composition is unknown, it was originally published in the 1609 Quarto along with the rest of the sonnets. Within the sonnet, the speaker excuses the Fair Youth's amorous activity due to his youth and attractiveness toward women, but also chides him for betraying the speaker by sleeping with his mistress. It"
"of Shakespeare’s writing..."", and ""Draper plays Shakespeare with gusto, delighting in the fact that, like the bard, what’s the point if the playwright doesn’t give himself the best parts? Alongside his clowning and wit, he shows the loneliness and despair to give a rounded character"" To W.H. To W.H. is a play that examines the potential sexuality of William Shakespeare and the identity of ""W.H."" who has been referred to a number of times in Shakespeare's work. The play was written by Stuart Draper, directed by Anton Krause and first played in Hobgoblin Pub Theatre in London in spring 2006."
"Sonnet 121 Sonnet 121 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards his young lover. The poet condemns hypocrisy and decides he's going to be himself. Hypocrites force you to lose out on life's fair pleasures. They are bad by pointing out your faults. What they see as a fault may actually be a good thing. You have to hide your pleasurable pursuits from them. Unless they realize that all people are bad (and presumably they will"
"Sonnet 33 Shakespeare's Sonnet 33 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. This sonnet is the first of what are sometimes called the estrangement sonnets, numbers 33–36: poems concerned with the speaker's response to an unspecified ""sensual fault"" mentioned in (35) committed by his beloved. Nicolaus Delius notes thematic and stylistic parallels to the last scene of ""The Two Gentlemen of Verona"". George Steevens and Edward Dowden were among the first to group"
"a play by William Shakespeare, while some are named after characters from ""Robinson Crusoe"", ""Moby Dick"" and others after general nautical or island-based literature. The name of Beatrice, Snicket's dedicatee, may be an allusion to the poem ""La Beatrice"" by Charles Baudelaire. The poem references an ""actor without a job,"" like the actor Count Olaf. The poem also begins with the line ""In a burnt, ash-grey land without vegetation,"" similar to the Baudelaire mansion burning down at the beginning of the series. The name Beatrice could also be an allusion to Italian poet Dante. Dante dedicated all of his works"
"This was not a notable study and is largely ignored. Sonnet 76 Sonnet 76 is one of 154 sonnets published by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare in 1609. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence. This sonnet continues the theme of Sonnet 38 (38 sonnets ago), in which the ""sweet argument"" of the young man is predicted to inspire endless ""invention"". Sonnets 76 and 38 share four key words: ""invention, sweet, write"" and ""argument."" This sonnet begins by asking why the poet’s verse is lacking in new variations, why the poet doesn’t look around at the verse"
"Sonnet 25 Sonnet 25 is one of 154 sonnets published by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare in the ""Quarto"" of 1609. It is a part of the Fair Youth sequence. In the sonnet the poem expresses the poet's contentedness in comparison to others, though they may have titles, honors, or are favored at court, or are noted warriors. It prefigures the more famous treatment of class differences found in Sonnet 29. There are noted similarities in this sonnet and in the relationship of Romeo and Juliet. The Speaker contrasts those who are fortunate (whether by the astrological influence"
"is mightily enriched"". He names twelve plays written by Shakespeare, including four which were never published in quarto: ""The Two Gentlemen of Verona"", ""The Comedy of Errors"", ""Love's Labour's Won"", and ""King John"", as well as ascribing to Shakespeare some of the plays that were published anonymously before 1598—""Titus Andronicus"", ""Romeo and Juliet"", and ""Henry IV, Part 1"". He refers to Shakespeare's ""sug[a]red Sonnets among his private friends"" 11 years before the publication of the Sonnets. In the rigid social structure of Elizabethan England, William Shakespeare was entitled to use the honorific ""gentleman"" after his father was granted a coat"
"subjected himself to such unbearable torment. In relationship to this argument, it can be argued that the ""friend"" within Shakespeare's Sonnet 133 is in fact representative of the speaker's inner self. This strengthens Garrigues' argument, most notably in the line 4 where the speaker states, ""But slavery to slavery my sweet'st friend must be?"" When read in light of Garrigues' assertions, the reader can see that the speaker is referring to being enslaved by himself, or his senses. Sonnet 133 Sonnet 133 is a poem in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare, first published in 1609. Critics generally agree that"
"Sonnet 32 Sonnet 32 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. The writer is reflecting on a future in which the young man will probably outlive him. The writer takes a melancholy tone, telling the young man to remember the writer not because of the strength of the sonnets, but because the love that has been shown to the young man far surpasses any love shown by another poet. Shakespeare's sonnets are typically"
"a man’ could be reconnected into verse through correction with Q1. Modern editors have generally concurred. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet ""A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"" is a popular reference to William Shakespeare's play ""Romeo and Juliet"", in which Juliet seems to argue that it does not matter that Romeo is from her family's rival house of Montague, that is, that he is named ""Montague"". The reference is often used to imply that the names of things do not affect what they really are. This formulation is, however, a paraphrase"
"makes reference to the many debates about Shakespeare's sexuality. Shakespeare flirts with Martha multiple times during the episode, and ultimately composes Sonnet 18 for her, calling her his ""Dark Lady"". This is a reference to the enigmatic female character in Shakespeare's Sonnets, although Sonnet 18 is in fact one of those addressed to a male character, the Fair Youth. Shakespeare subsequently flirts with the Doctor as well, at which the Doctor observes, ""Fifty-seven academics just punched the air,"" a reference to the debates on this subject. There is a running joke throughout the episode in which the Doctor creates an"
"Leeds when it was opened on 24 May 1771. It was later staged by the American Company in North America. A Word to the Wise A Word to the Wise is a 1770 comedy play by the Irish writer Hugh Kelly. It was his second work after the 1767 hit ""False Delicacy"". Kelly was known as a supporter of the government, and an opponent of the radical John Wilkes. During the second performance of the play a riot broke out amongst Wilkes' supporters at the Drury Lane Theatre and the play was subsequently withdrawn. When it was published instead Kelly"
"Sonnet 124 Sonnet 124 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. This sonnet observes the poet's personal transition on his interpretation of love. The speaker is no longer referring to ""Fair Youth"" when he utters the word 'love'. Rather, the poet has come to realize his own shortsightedness in his obsession with youth's materialism. The materialism of youth demonstrates the large issue at hand for this sonnet, the political and human state. References to"